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soundproofing
[[English]]
[Noun]
editsoundproofing (usually uncountable, plural soundproofings)
1.Something that prevents sound from traveling through it, such as is put on walls so adjacent areas are not disturbed by noise.
Until the soundproofing is installed, I don't think I'll be able to get to sleep here.
2.The act of installing material to dampen sound.
The soundproofing will take place today.
[Verb]
editsoundproofing
1.present participle of soundproof
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soundproof
[[English]]
[Adjective]
editsoundproof (comparative more soundproof, superlative most soundproof)
1.Not allowing sound through.
The contestant was placed in a soundproof booth so he could not receive help from the audience.
[Etymology]
editsound + -proof
[Verb]
editsoundproof (third-person singular simple present soundproofs, present participle soundproofing, simple past and past participle soundproofed)
1.To make resistant to transmitting sound.
We soundproofed the room so we couldn't hear the road noises; unfortunately we couldn't hear the fire alarm either.
2.1960 March, G. Freeman Allen, “Europe's most luxurious express - the "Settebello"”, in Trains Illustrated, page 141:
It almost goes without saying that the train is fully soundproofed, with double-glazed windows and highly efficient air-conditioning by the British firm of J. Stone.
3.1980, Robert M. Jones, editor, Walls and Ceilings, Time-Life Books, →ISBN, page 114:
Soundproofing a room may be as simple as sealing gaps around a door, or it may require rebuilding an entire wall or lowering a ceiling.
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lantern
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈlæn.tən/[Alternative forms]
edit
- (archaic) lanthorn
[Anagrams]
edit
- trannel
[Etymology]
editMiddle English lanterne (13th century), via Old French lanterne from Latin lanterna (“lantern”), itself a corruption of Ancient Greek λαμπτήρ (lamptḗr, “torch”) (see lamp, λάμπω (lámpō)) by influence of Latin lucerna (“lamp”). The spelling lanthorn was current during the 16th to 19th centuries and originates with a folk etymology associating the word with the use of horn as translucent cover. For the verb, compare French lanterner to hang at the lamppost.
[Noun]
editlantern (plural lanterns)
1.A case of translucent or transparent material made to protect a flame, or light, used to illuminate its surroundings.
2.(theater) Especially, a metal casing with lens used to illuminate a stage (e.g. spotlight, floodlight).
3.(architecture) An open structure of light material set upon a roof, to give light and air to the interior.
4.1853, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, ch 1:
On such an afternoon, if ever, the Lord High Chancellor ought to be sitting here—as here he is—with a foggy glory round his head, softly fenced in with crimson cloth and curtains, addressed by a large advocate with great whiskers, a little voice, and an interminable brief, and outwardly directing his contemplation to the lantern in the roof, where he can see nothing but fog.
5.(architecture) A cage or open chamber of rich architecture, open below into the building or tower which it crowns.
6.(architecture) A smaller and secondary cupola crowning a larger one, for ornament, or to admit light.
the lantern of the cupola of the Capitol at Washington, or that of the Florence cathedral
7.(engineering) A lantern pinion or trundle wheel.
8.(steam engines) A kind of cage inserted in a stuffing box and surrounding a piston rod, to separate the packing into two parts and form a chamber between for the reception of steam, etc.; a lantern brass.
9.(rail transport) A light formerly used as a signal by a railway guard or conductor at night.
10.(metalworking) A perforated barrel to form a core upon.
11.(zoology) Aristotle's lantern
[See also]
edit
- lamp
- torch
[Verb]
editlantern (third-person singular simple present lanterns, present participle lanterning, simple past and past participle lanterned)
1.(transitive) To furnish with a lantern.
to lantern a lighthouse
[[Middle English]]
[Noun]
editlantern
1.Alternative form of lanterne
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diffuser
[[English]]
ipa :/dɪˈfjuːsə(ɹ)/[Etymology 1]
editdiffuse (adjective) + -er
[Etymology 2]
editdiffuse (verb) + -er
[[French]]
ipa :/di.fy.ze/[Etymology]
editFrom diffus.
[Further reading]
edit
- “diffuser” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[Verb]
editdiffuser
1.to diffuse
2.to broadcast
3.
La baladodiffusion est ainsi utilisée comme outil à potentiel cognitif, parce qu'elle permet, relativement facilement, de diffuser un contenu audio ou vidéo qui peut, par la suite, être écouté ou vu à tout moment par l'apprenant. Par ailleurs, les responsables du projet rappellent que les étudiants l'utilisent également pour écouter des balados de chroniques audio comme celles de The New England Journal of Medicine, une des plus importantes revues en médecine au monde.
Therefore, podcasting is used as a tool for cognitive potential, because it allows for the relatively easy distribution of audio or video content, which, as a result, can be listened to or watched at any moment by the learner. Furthermore, the project managers remark that the students also use it to listen to audio podcast series, such as those of The New England Journal of Medicine, one of the most important medicine journals on Earth.
[[German]]
[Adjective]
editdiffuser
1.comparative degree of diffuseditdiffuser
1.inflection of diffus:
1.strong/mixed nominative masculine singular
2.strong genitive/dative feminine singular
3.strong genitive plural
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tripod
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈtɹaɪpɑd/[Anagrams]
edit
- torpid
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin tripūs, tripodis, from Ancient Greek τρίπους (trípous); equivalent to tri- + -pod. Doublet of tripus.
[Noun]
edittripod (plural tripods)
1.A three-legged stand or mount.
Recent cell phones offer tripod attachments to take steady photographs. A hoarde of Martian tripods attacking houses, in a 1906 illustration to The War of the Worlds.
1.(science fiction) A fictional three-legged Martian war machine from H.G. Wells's novel The War of the Worlds (1897).
Synonyms: fighting-machine, Thing
2.(slang) A man with macrophallism.
[Verb]
edittripod (third-person singular simple present tripods, present participle tripoding, simple past and past participle tripoded)
1.(intransitive) To enter the tripod position showing signs of exhaustion or distress.
I tripodded after my 6-mile run.
[[Hungarian]]
ipa :[ˈtripod][Noun]
edittripod (plural tripodok)
1.tripod (three-legged stand or mount)
Synonym: háromlábú állvány
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engagement
[[English]]
ipa :/ɪnˈɡeɪd͡ʒ.mənt/[Antonyms]
edit
- apathy
- disengagement
[Etymology]
editFrom French engagement.
[Noun]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:engagementWikipedia engagement (countable and uncountable, plural engagements)
1.(countable) An appointment, especially to speak or perform.
The lecturer has three speaking engagements this week.
2.(uncountable) Connection or attachment.
Check the gears for full engagement before turning the handle.
3.(uncountable, by extension, about human emotional state) The feeling of being compelled, drawn in, connected to what is happening, interested in what will happen next.[1]
4.(countable, uncountable) The period of time when marriage is planned or promised.
We are enjoying a long engagement, but haven't yet set a date.
5.(countable, uncountable) In any situation of conflict, an actual instance of active hostilities.
The engagement resulted in many casualties.
6.(fencing, countable) The point at which the fencers are close enough to join blades, or to make an effective attack during an encounter.
After engagement it quickly became clear which of the fencers was going to prevail.
[References]
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1. ^ Emery Schubert; Kim Vincs, Catherine J. Stevens (2013) , “Identifying Regions of Good Agreement among Responders in Engagement with a Piece of Live Dance”, in Empirical Studies of the Arts[1], volume 31, issue 1, DOI:https://doi.org/10.2190/EM.31.1.a, pages 4
[See also]
edit
- battle
- campaign
[Synonyms]
edit
- commitment
- action
[[French]]
ipa :/ɑ̃.ɡaʒ.mɑ̃/[Etymology]
editengager + -ment.
[Further reading]
edit
- “engagement” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[Noun]
editengagement m (plural engagements)
1.commitment
2.engagement
[[Norman]]
[Etymology]
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[Noun]
editengagement m (plural engagements)
1.(Jersey) engagement
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Parrot
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- raptor
[Etymology]
editVariant of Parrott.
[Proper noun]
editParrot
1.A surname, from given names.
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connoisseur
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌkɑnəˈsɝ/[Alternative forms]
edit
- connaisseur
[Etymology]
editAround 1705–1715, from French connoisseur, from the verb connoître (obsolete pre-1835 spelling of connaître (“to know”)).
[Noun]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:connoisseurWikipedia connoisseur (plural connoisseurs)
1.A specialist in a given field whose opinion is highly valued, especially in one of the fine arts or in matters of taste
2.1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
This, when it was brought to him, he drank slowly, like a connoisseur, lingering on the taste...[1]
[Synonyms]
edit
- cognoscente
[[French]]
ipa :/kɔ.nɛ.sœʁ/[Noun]
editconnoisseur m (plural connoisseurs)
1.Obsolete spelling of connaisseur
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Rennes
[[English]]
ipa :/ɹɛn/[Anagrams]
edit
- Senner
[Etymology]
editFrom French Rennes, from Old French Resnes, Rednes, from Latin Rēdonēs.
[Proper noun]
editRennes
1.The capital city of Ille-et-Vilaine department, France; capital city of the region of Brittany.
[[French]]
ipa :/ʁɛn/[Etymology]
editFrom Latin Rēdonēs.
[Proper noun]
editRennes ?
1.Rennes (the capital city of Ille-et-Vilaine department, France; capital city of the region of Brittany)
[See also]
edit
- rennais, Rennais
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turn one's back on
[[English]]
[Verb]
editturn one's back (third-person singular simple present turns one's back, present participle turning one's back, simple past and past participle turned one's back)
1.(intransitive, idiomatic) To cease paying attention to something.
As soon as I turned my back, he started writing on the wall.
2.(intransitive, idiomatic, with "on") To forsake, to abandon; to ignore.
He got off to a strong start, only to turn his back on the project two months later.
3.(intransitive) To turn away, as when fleeing or in contempt.
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turn one's back
[[English]]
[Verb]
editturn one's back (third-person singular simple present turns one's back, present participle turning one's back, simple past and past participle turned one's back)
1.(intransitive, idiomatic) To cease paying attention to something.
As soon as I turned my back, he started writing on the wall.
2.(intransitive, idiomatic, with "on") To forsake, to abandon; to ignore.
He got off to a strong start, only to turn his back on the project two months later.
3.(intransitive) To turn away, as when fleeing or in contempt.
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turn back
[[English]]
[Synonyms]
edit
- (reverse direction): about turn, about face
- (fold): fold, fold back
- (prevent passage): drive away, repel, stop
[Verb]
editturn back (third-person singular simple present turns back, present participle turning back, simple past and past participle turned back)
1.(intransitive) To reverse direction and retrace one's steps.
Realising he had forgotten his briefcase, he turned back and re-entered the office.
2.1914, Louis Joseph Vance, chapter III, in Nobody, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, published 1915, OCLC 40817384:
Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
3.(transitive) To cause to reverse direction and retrace one's steps.
The barrage of machine-gun fire turned back the encroaching soldiers.
4.To return to a previous state of being.
He stopped drinking for a couple of years, but now he has turned back to his old ways.
Once we take this decision, there's no turning back.
5.(transitive) To prevent or refuse to allow passage or progress.
The soldiers turned back all the refugees at the frontier.
6.(transitive) To adjust to a previous setting.
In Autumn we normally turn the clocks back one hour.
I love that song: turn back to it!
7.(transitive) To fold something back; to fold down.
When you make the bed, please always turn the sheet back over the blanket.
8.(obsolete, transitive) To give back; to return.
9.1602, William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida[1], Act II, Scene II:
We turn not back the silks upon the merchants,
When we have soiled them; nor the remainder viands.
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public interest
[[English]]
[Noun]
editpublic interest (uncountable)
1.Common good.
2.1928, Lawrence R. Bourne, chapter 7, in Well Tackled![1]:
The detective kept them in view. He made his way casually along the inside of the shelter until he reached an open scuttle close to where the two men were standing talking. Eavesdropping was not a thing Larard would have practised from choice, but there were times when, in the public interest, he had to do it, and this was one of them.
3.2011 Jan 11, by Afua Hirsch, Max Mosley's privacy claim reaches the European court of human rights, in The Guardian.
The culture, media and sport select committee criticised the News of the World in its report in February, stating that the story had not been in the public interest. "We found the News of the World editor's attempts to justify the Max Mosley story on public interest grounds wholly unpersuasive, although we have no doubt that public was interested in it," it said.
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revise
[[English]]
ipa :/ɹɪˈvaɪ̯z/[Anagrams]
edit
- Rieves, Sevier, reives, revies, rieves, siever
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Middle French réviser, from Latin revīsere, from re- + vīsere (“examine”), frequentative of vidēre (“see”).
[Noun]
editrevise (plural revises)
1.A review or a revision.
2.(printing) A second proof sheet; a proof sheet taken after the first or a subsequent correction.
3.1837, Anthony Panizzi, A letter to His Royal Highness the President of the Royal Society, on the New Catalogue of the Library of that Institution Now in the Press, page 30,
The question is, not whether the revises of the Catalogue, which I was obliged to circulate prematurely, were faultless, but whether the alterations which I was desired to make would not render them worse.
4.1869 August 16, Anthony Trollope, letter to W. H. Bradbury, 1983, N. John Hall (editor), The Letters of Anthony Trollope, Volume 1: 1835-1870, page 479,
Looking back at the revises of Bullhampton it seems to me that the printers have fallen into some error as to the numbering of Chapters XXXIV—XXXV—XXXVI—which should have been XXXV—XXXVI— and XXXVII.
5.1917, United States Congress: House Committee on Rules, Alleged Divulgence of President′s note to Belligerent Powers, page 1440,
I still held the revises; kept them until the type was made up and went to the press, for final page proof.
6.1997, David Lodge, The Practice of Writing, 2011, page 219,
[…] until I had corrected the proofs of the novel and seen the revises, so that the text was irrevocably fixed, before beginning the screenplay.
[See also]
edit
- revisable
- revisal
- reviser
- revisory
- revision
- revisionism
- revisionist
[Synonyms]
edit
- (review, edit and amend):
- (look over again): review
[Verb]
editrevise (third-person singular simple present revises, present participle revising, simple past and past participle revised)
1.(obsolete) To look at again, to reflect on.
2.To review, alter and amend, especially of written material.
This statute should be revised.
3.1951, Maulana Muhammad Ali, Preface to the Revised Edition, The Holy Quran: English Translation and Commentary, 2011, unnumbered page,
There has been a demand for a revised edition of my English Translation and Commentary of the Holy Qur′an since the end of the Second World War.
4.1983, Willard Scott Thompson, Chapter 1: The Third World Revisited, Willard Scott Thompson (editor), The Third World: Premises of U.S. Policy, Revised edition, page 15,
The chapter that deals specifically with singular examples is Daniel Pipes′ revised study of the Third World peoples of Soviet Central Asia.
5.2008, Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, Joseph M. Williams. The Craft of Research, 3rd edition, University of Chicago Press, page 203,
The best writers know better. They write a first draft not to show readers, but to discover what case they can make for their point and whether it stands up to their own scrutiny. Then they revise and revise until they think their readers will think so too.
6.(Britain, Australia, New Zealand) To look over again (something previously written or learned), especially in preparation for an examination.
I should be revising for my exam in a few days.
7.1957, Clifford Thomas Morgan, James Deese, How to Study, McGraw-Hill, page 16,
In revising your notes, you can also reorganize them so that they are more legible, better arranged, and in a more useful condition for subsequent reviews.
8.2003, Stuart Redman, English Vocabulary in Use: Pre-Intermediate & Intermediate, 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, page 5,
4 Is it necessary to revise vocabulary (= study it again for a second or third time)?
5 Is it better to revise vocabulary occasionally for long periods of time, or is it better to revise regularly for short periods of time?
9.2008, Tom Burns, Sandra Sinfield, Chapter 19: How to build your memory and revise effectively, Essential Study Skills: The Complete Guide to Success at University, SAGE Publications, UK, page 273.
[[Latin]]
[Verb]
editrevīse
1.second-person singular present active imperative of revīsō
[[Portuguese]]
[Verb]
editrevise
1.first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of revisar
2.third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of revisar
3.third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of revisar
4.third-person singular (você) negative imperative of revisar
[[Spanish]]
[Verb]
editrevise
1.First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of revisar.
2.Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of revisar.
3.Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of revisar.
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downward
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈdaʊnwɚd/[Adjective]
editdownward (comparative more downward, superlative most downward)
1.Moving, sloping or oriented downward.
He spoke with a downward glance.
2.1593, William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis,[7]
But this foul, grim, and urchin-snouted boar,
Whose downward eye still looketh for a grave,
Ne’er saw the beauteous livery that he wore;
3.1728, James Thomson, Spring. A Poem, London: A. Millar, p. 12,[8]
[…] in the Western Sky, the downward Sun
Looks out illustrious from amid the Flush
Of broken Clouds […]
4.1897, H. G. Wells, The Invisible Man, Chapter 28,[9]
Emerging into the hill-road, Kemp naturally took the downward direction […]
5.1952, Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt, Mineola, New York: Dover, 2015, Chapter 7, p. 73,[10]
[…] Therese saw a downward slant of sadness in her mouth now, a sadness not of wisdom but of defeat.
6.Located at a lower level.
7.1713, Alexander Pope, Windsor-Forest, London: Bernard Lintott, p. 9,[11]
In her chast Current oft the Goddess laves,
And with Celestial Tears augments the Waves.
Oft in her Glass the musing Shepherd spies
The headlong Mountains and the downward Skies,
The watry Landskip of the pendant Woods,
And absent Trees that tremble in the Floods;
8.1793, Thomas Taylor (translator), The Phædo in The Cratylus, Phædo, Parmenides and Timæus of Plato, London: Benjamin and John White, p. 235,[12]
[…] often revolving itself under the earth, [the river] flows into the more downward parts of Tartarus.
[Adverb]
editdownward (comparative more downward, superlative most downward)
1.Toward a lower level, whether in physical space, in a hierarchy, or in amount or value.
His position in society moved ever downward.
The natural disasters put downward pressure on the creditworthiness of the nation’s insurance groups.
2.c. 1590s, Michael Drayton, “The Ninth Eglog” in Poemes Lyrick and Pastorall, London: N.L. and I. Flasket (no date), published by the Spenser Society, 1891, p. 94,[1]
Whose presence, as she went along,
The prety flowers did greet,
As though their heads they downward bent
With homage to her feete.
3.c. 1602, William Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well, Act III, Scene 7,[2]
[…] a ring the county wears,
That downward hath succeeded in his house
From son to son, some four or five descents
4.1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, London: W. Taylor, p. 71,[3]
[…] their Sight was so directed downward, that they did not readily see Objects that were above them […]
5.1878, Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native, Book I, Chapter 4,[4]
Down, downward they went, and yet further down—their descent at each step seeming to outmeasure their advance.
6.At a lower level.
7.1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, London, Book I, lines 462-463,[5]
Dagon his Name, Sea Monster, upward Man
And downward Fish […]
8.southward
9.1927, Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 (of 6)[6]:
If we turn to the New World, we find that among the American Indians, from the Eskimo of Alaska downward to Brazil and still farther south, homosexual customs have been very frequently observed.
[Anagrams]
edit
- downdraw, draw down, drawdown
[Antonyms]
edit
- up, upwards
[Etymology]
editdown + -ward
[Synonyms]
edit
- down, downwards
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clergy
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈklɜːdʒi/[Etymology]
editMiddle English clergie (attested in the 13th century), from Old French clergié (“learned men”), from Late Latin clēricātus, from Latin clēricus (“one ordained for religious services”), from Ancient Greek κληρικός (klērikós, “of the clergy”).
[Noun]
editclergy (plural clergies)
1.Body of persons, such as ministers, sheiks, priests and rabbis, who are trained and ordained for religious service.
2.1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 5, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.
Today we brought together clergy from the Wiccan, Christian, New Age and Islamic traditions for an interfaith dialogue.
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swanky
[[English]]
ipa :-æŋki[Adjective]
editswanky (comparative swankier, superlative swankiest)
1.(informal) Rather posh, elegant, ritzy.
2.1930, Frank Richards, The Magnet, Tale-Bearer in Chief
His manner never had been modest or retiring. Now it was unmistakably swanky; he was putting on side to an extent that made fellows who observed him smile and shrug their shoulders.
[Anagrams]
edit
- Kwasny
[Etymology]
editswank + -y
[Noun]
editswanky (countable and uncountable, plural swankies)
1.Alternative form of swankie
[Synonyms]
edit
- swank
- swankish
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teasing
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈtiːzɪŋ/[Anagrams]
edit
- ageinst, easting, eatings, gainest, genista, giantes, ingates, ingesta, seating, signate, tagines, tangies, tsigane
[Noun]
editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:teasingWikipedia teasing (countable and uncountable, plural teasings)
1.The act of teasing; making fun of or making light of.
Teasing can be seen as a kind of workplace abuse.
[Verb]
editteasing
1.present participle of tease
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save
[[English]]
ipa :/seɪv/[Anagrams]
edit
- AEVs, Esav, VASE, VESA, Veas, aves, vaes, vase
[Conjunction]
editsave
1.(dated) unless; except
2.2009, Nicolas Brooke (translator), French Code of Civil Procedure in English 2008, Article 1 of Book One, quoted after: 2016, Laverne Jacobs and Sasha Baglay, The Nature of Inquisitorial Processes in Administrative Regimes: Global Perspectives, published by Routledge (first published in 2013 by Ashgate Publishing), p. 8:
Only the parties may institute proceedings, save where the law shall provide otherwise.
3.1914, Louis Joseph Vance, chapter III, in Nobody, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, published 1915, OCLC 40817384:
Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
[Derived terms]
edit
- save vs.
- save as
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English saven, sauven, a borrowing from Old French sauver, from Late Latin salvāre (“to save”).
[Noun]
editsave (plural saves)
1.In various sports, a block that prevents an opponent from scoring.
The goaltender made a great save.
2.2010 December 29, Sam Sheringham, “Liverpool 0 - 1 Wolverhampton”, in BBC[2]:
Wolves defender Ronald Zubar was slightly closer with his shot on the turn as he forced Pepe Reina, on his 200th Premier League appearance, into a low save.
3.(baseball) When a relief pitcher comes into a game leading by 3 points (runs) or less, and his team wins while continually being ahead.
Jones retired seven to earn the save.
4.(professional wrestling, slang) A point in a professional wrestling match when one or more wrestlers run to the ring to aid a fellow wrestler who is being beaten.
The giant wrestler continued to beat down his smaller opponent, until several wrestlers ran in for the save.
5.(computing) The act, process, or result of saving data to a storage medium.
If you're hit by a power cut, you'll lose all of your changes since your last save.
The game console can store up to eight saves on a single cartridge.
6.(role-playing games) A saving throw.
[Preposition]
editsave
1.Except; with the exception of.
[Synonyms]
edit
- barring, except for, save for; see also Thesaurus:except
[Verb]
editsave (third-person singular simple present saves, present participle saving, simple past and past participle saved)
1.(transitive) To prevent harm or difficulty.
1.To help (somebody) to survive, or rescue (somebody or something) from harm.
She was saved from drowning by a passer-by.
We were able to save a few of our possessions from the house fire.
2.2014 June 14, “It's a gas”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8891:
One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.
3.To keep (something) safe; to safeguard.
4.1667, John Milton, “Book 3”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:
Thou hast […] quitted all to save / A world from utter loss.
5.To spare (somebody) from effort, or from something undesirable.
6.1613, William Shakespeare; [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene i]:
I'll save you / That labour, sir. All's now done.
7.(theology) To redeem or protect someone from eternal damnation.
Jesus Christ came to save sinners.
8.(sports) To catch or deflect (a shot at goal).
9.2012, Chelsea 6-0 Wolves
Chelsea's youngsters, who looked lively throughout, then combined for the second goal in the seventh minute. Romeu's shot was saved by Wolves goalkeeper Dorus De Vries but Piazon kept the ball alive and turned it back for an unmarked Bertrand to blast home.To put aside, to avoid.
1.(transitive) To store for future use.
Let's save the packaging in case we need to send the product back.
2.(transitive) To conserve or prevent the wasting of.
Save electricity by turning off the lights when you leave the room.
3.1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in An Autobiography, part I, London: Collins, →ISBN:
An indulgent playmate, Grannie would lay aside the long scratchy-looking letter she was writing (heavily crossed ‘to save notepaper’) and enter into the delightful pastime of ‘a chicken from Mr Whiteley's’.
4.2019 May 21, Dylan Curran, “Facial recognition will soon be everywhere. Are we prepared?”, in The Guardian[1]:
However, we’ve reached the stage where our technological leaps and bounds no longer save us hours, or even minutes – they shave only seconds from our day-to-day tasks.
5.(transitive) To obviate or make unnecessary.
6.1681, John Dryden, The Spanish Fryar: Or, the Double Discovery. […], London: […] Richard Tonson and Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 6484883, (please specify the page number):
Will you not speak to save a lady's blush?
7.(transitive, intransitive, computing, video games) To write a file to disk or other storage medium.
Where did I save that document? I can't find it on the desktop.
8.
9. (intransitive) To economize or avoid waste.
10.(transitive and intransitive) To accumulate money or valuables.
[[Bislama]]
[Etymology]
editFrench savez (“you know”) and English savvy have been suggested as origins, but Charpentier considers Portuguese sabe (“know”), influenced by its Spanish cognate, more likely. Compare Tok Pisin save.
[References]
edit
- Claire Moyse-Faurie, Borrowings from Romance languages in Oceanic languages, in Aspects of Language Contact (2008, →ISBN
[Verb]
editsave
1.to know
2.to be able to
mi no save kam : I can't come
mi save toktok Francis : I can speak French
[[Danish]]
ipa :/saːvə/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Old Norse saga, from Proto-Germanic *sagōną, cognate with Swedish såga, English saw, German sägen, Dutch zagen. Derived from the noun *sagō (Danish sav).
[Etymology 2]
editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
[[Middle English]]
[Adjective]
editsave
1.Alternative form of sauf
[Adverb]
editsave
1.Alternative form of sauf
[Conjunction]
editsave
1.Alternative form of sauf
[Preposition]
editsave
1.Alternative form of sauf
[[Northern Sami]]
ipa :/ˈsave/[Verb]
editsave
1.inflection of savvit:
1.present indicative connegative
2.second-person singular imperative
3.imperative connegative
[[Portuguese]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from English save.
[Noun]
editsave m (plural saves)
1.(informal, gaming) save file (of a video game or computer game)
Eu cheguei mesmo na última fase, mas perdi meu save então terei que começar o jogo de novo.
I did reach the final level, but I lost my save file so I'm gonna have to start the game over.
[[Tok Pisin]]
[Adverb]
editsave
1.habitually
2.1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 1:2:
Tasol graun i no bin i stap olsem yumi save lukim nau.
→New International Version translation
[Etymology]
editFrom Portuguese sabe (“know”). Compare Bislama save.
[Noun]
editsave
1.knowledge
2.1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 2:9:
Na i gat narapela diwai tu i stap, em diwai bilong givim gutpela save long wanem samting i gutpela na wanem samting i nogut.
→New International Version translationThis entry has fewer than three known examples of actual usage, the minimum considered necessary for clear attestation, and may not be reliable. Tok Pisin is subject to a special exemption for languages with limited documentation. If you speak it, please consider editing this entry or adding citations. See also Help and the Community Portal.
[Verb]
editsave
1.(transitive) to know
2.(transitive) to understand
3.1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 18:21:
Olsem na bai mi go daun na lukim pasin ol dispela manmeri i mekim. Na bai mi ken save, ol dispela tok mi harim pinis, em i tru o nogat.
→New International Version translation
4.(transitive) to make a practice or habit of
5.(transitive) to learn
6.1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 3:22:
Bihain God, Bikpela i tok, “Man i save pinis long wanem samting i gutpela na wanem samting i nogut, na em i kamap wankain olsem yumi. Orait yumi no ken larim em i go klostu long dispela diwai bilong givim laip. Nogut em i kaikai pikinini bilong dispela diwai tu na em i stap oltaim.”
→New International Version translation
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save up
[[English]]
[References]
edit
- “save up” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- "save up" at Rhymezone (Datamuse, 2006)
[Verb]
editsave up (third-person singular simple present saves up, present participle saving up, simple past and past participle saved up)
1.(transitive and intransitive) To accumulate money, especially for a specific, planned expenditure.
I'm saving up my tips for a new guitar.
She knows she must save up for college.
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save for
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- Faveros
[Preposition]
editsave for
1.With the exception of
Synonyms: besides, except for; see also Thesaurus:except
[References]
edit
- save for at Merriam-Webster
- save for at CollinsDictionary
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Save
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- AEVs, Esav, VASE, VESA, Veas, aves, vaes, vase
[Proper noun]
editSave
1.A river in southeastern Africa that flows about 400 km (250 mi) from south of Harare in Zimbabwe, through Mozambique, to the Indian Ocean.
2.A river in southern France that flows about 143 km (89 mi) from the Pyrenees to the Garonne at Grenade.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (river in Africa): Sabi
[[French]]
ipa :/sav/[Etymology]
editFrom Latin Savus.
[Proper noun]
editSave f
1.Sava (river)
2.Save (a river in France)
[[German]]
[Etymology 1]
edit
[Etymology 2]
edit
[[Latin]]
ipa :/ˈsa.u̯eː/[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Ancient Greek Σαύη (Saúē).
[Proper noun]
editSavē f sg (genitive Savēs); first declension
1.An inland city of Arabia, in the country of the Maphoritae
[References]
edit
- Save in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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boils
[[English]]
ipa :/bɔɪlz/[Anagrams]
edit
- Blois, Silbo, bilos, bolis
[Noun]
editboils
1.plural of boil
[Verb]
editboils
1.Third-person singular simple present indicative form of boil
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boil
[[English]]
ipa :/bɔɪl/[Anagrams]
edit
- bilo, biol, biol., boli, lobi
[Etymology 1]
editFrom Middle English bile, büle (“boil, tumor”), from Old English bȳl, bȳle (“boil, swelling”), from Proto-Germanic *būlijō, *būlō (“boil”). Akin to German Beule (“boil, hump”), Icelandic beyla (“swelling, hump”).
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English boillen, from Old French boillir (French: bouillir) from Latin bullīre, present active infinitive of bulliō (“I bubble, boil”), from bulla (“bubble”). Displaced native Middle English sethen (“to boil”) (from Old English sēoþan (“to boil, seethe”)), Middle English wellen (“to boil, bubble”) (from Old English wiellan (“to bubble, boil”)), Middle English wallen (“to well up, boil”) (from Old English weallan (“to well up, boil”)). More at seethe, well.
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boil down to
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editAs an allusion to the technique of reduction or decreasing liquid content of food by boiling much of its water off.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (become reduced): come down to
[Verb]
editboil down (third-person singular simple present boils down, present participle boiling down, simple past and past participle boiled down)
1.(transitive and intransitive) To reduce in volume by boiling.
He boiled the soup down so it wouldn't be so weak.
2.(intransitive) To become reduced (to the most central elements or ingredients: to the essence, core, or implication for action).
So what this boils down to is that you still owe me that fifty bucks.
3.2013, Daniel Taylor, Andros Townsend calms England's nerves in taming of Montenegro (in The Guardian, 11 October 2013)[1]
For England, everything now boils down to what happens against Poland on Tuesday.
4.(transitive) To reduce (to the most central elements or ingredients: to the essence, core, or implication for action).
My dissertation is 342 pages long, and I'm required to boil it down to a one-page abstract?!
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boil down
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editAs an allusion to the technique of reduction or decreasing liquid content of food by boiling much of its water off.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (become reduced): come down to
[Verb]
editboil down (third-person singular simple present boils down, present participle boiling down, simple past and past participle boiled down)
1.(transitive and intransitive) To reduce in volume by boiling.
He boiled the soup down so it wouldn't be so weak.
2.(intransitive) To become reduced (to the most central elements or ingredients: to the essence, core, or implication for action).
So what this boils down to is that you still owe me that fifty bucks.
3.2013, Daniel Taylor, Andros Townsend calms England's nerves in taming of Montenegro (in The Guardian, 11 October 2013)[1]
For England, everything now boils down to what happens against Poland on Tuesday.
4.(transitive) To reduce (to the most central elements or ingredients: to the essence, core, or implication for action).
My dissertation is 342 pages long, and I'm required to boil it down to a one-page abstract?!
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mind you
[[English]]
[Adverb]
editmind you
1.(idiomatic, colloquial, chiefly Britain) Used to introduce a qualification or contrastive statement, especially when toning down or rectifying
These shirts are very expensive. Mind you, they are excellent quality.
2.1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in An Autobiography, part II, London: Collins, →ISBN:
Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. There was a great deal of them, lavish both in material and in workmanship.
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cramming
[[English]]
[Noun]
editcramming (plural crammings)
1.The act by which something is crammed, or stuffed full.
2.1838, John Sanderson, Sketches of Paris: in familiar letters to his friends:
In some parts of the house were all the comforts of elbowings, shufflings, crammings and squeezings, and on the outside all the racket that was possible of screaming women, and wrangling coachmen […]
3.An intensive course of hard study, as for an examination.
4.1885, Journal of Education (volume 7, page 391)
And, what with innumerable numbers of stiff and stiffer and stiffest competitions and examinations and crammings and general papers bristling at all angles, […]
[Verb]
editcramming
1.present participle of cram
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cram
[[English]]
ipa :/kɹæm/[Anagrams]
edit
- MRCA, Marc, macr-, marc, mrca
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English crammen, from Old English crammian (“to cram; stuff”), from Proto-West Germanic *krammōn, from Proto-Germanic *krammōną, a secondary verb derived from *krimmaną (“to stuff”), from Proto-Indo-European *ger- (“to assemble; collect; gather”). Compare Old English crimman (“to cram; stuff; insert; press; bruise”), Icelandic kremja (“to squeeze; crush; bruise”).
[Noun]
editcram (countable and uncountable, plural crams)
1.The act of cramming (forcing or stuffing something).
2.Information hastily memorized.
a cram from an examination
3.(weaving) A warp having more than two threads passing through each dent or split of the reed.
4.(dated, British slang) A lie; a falsehood.
5.1864, Sheridan Le Fanu, Joseph, Uncle Silas:
It is awful, an old un like that telling such crams as she do.
6.1894, Reed, Talbot Baines, Tom, Dick, and Harry, page 107:
Shut up, and don't tell crams.
7.(uncountable) A mathematical board game in which players take turns placing dominoes horizontally or vertically until no more can be placed, the loser being the player who cannot continue.
8.A small friendship book with limited space for people to enter their information.
9.2017, Mark Duffett, Fan Identities and Practices in Context: Dedicated to Music (page 194)
Regular friendship books had a variety of variations, such as slams, crams, and decos.
10.2019, Manjit Bal, Lovingly Yours - Penpals:
Pen pals also make and pass around friendship books, slams and crams. In recent years, pen pal correspondence with prison inmates has gained acceptance on the Internet.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (lie): see Thesaurus:lie
[Verb]
editcram (third-person singular simple present crams, present participle cramming, simple past and past participle crammed)
1.(transitive) To press, force, or drive, particularly in filling, or in thrusting one thing into another; to stuff; to fill to superfluity.
to cram fruit into a basket; to cram a room with people
2.2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 244:
Are we to blame Livingstone for Tube overcrowding? In part, yes, but as Sir John Eliot had observed in 1955, while Chairman of the London Transport Executive: 'They're not crammed in. They cram themselves in.'
3.(transitive) To fill with food to satiety; to stuff.
The boy crammed himself with cake
4.(transitive) To put hastily through an extensive course of memorizing or study, as in preparation for an examination.
A pupil is crammed by his tutor.
5.(intransitive) To study hard; to swot.
6.(intransitive) To eat greedily, and to satiety; to stuff oneself.
7.(intransitive, dated, British slang) To lie; to intentionally not tell the truth.
8.(transitive, dated, British slang) To make (a person) believe false or exaggerated tales.
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Cram
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- MRCA, Marc, macr-, marc, mrca
[Proper noun]
editCram (plural Crams)
1.A surname.
[Statistics]
edit
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Cram is the 8939th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 3662 individuals. Cram is most common among White (93.58%) individuals.
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prohibitively
[[English]]
[Adverb]
editprohibitively (comparative more prohibitively, superlative most prohibitively)
1.In a prohibitive manner.
2.To a prohibitive extent.
a prohibitively expensive gift
[Etymology]
editprohibitive + -ly
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moral
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈmɒɹəl/[Adjective]
editmoral (comparative more moral, superlative most moral)
1.Of or relating to principles of right and wrong in behaviour, especially for teaching right behaviour.
moral judgments; a moral poem
2.1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, OCLC 223202227:
She had wandered without rule or guidance in a moral wilderness.
3.Conforming to a standard of right behaviour; sanctioned by or operative on one's conscience or ethical judgment.
4.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter 1, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., OCLC 222716698:
The stories did not seem to me to touch life. They were plainly intended to have a bracing moral effect, and perhaps had this result for the people at whom they were aimed. They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.
a moral obligation
5.Capable of right and wrong action.
a moral agent
6.Probable but not proved.
a moral certainty
7.Positively affecting the mind, confidence, or will.
a moral victory; moral support
[Anagrams]
edit
- Marlo, molar, romal
[Antonyms]
edit
- immoral, unethical, corrupt, unscrupulous, amoral, non-moral, unmoral
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English moral, from Old French moral, from Latin mōrālis (“relating to manners or morals”)(first used by Cicero, to translate Ancient Greek ἠθικός (ēthikós, “moral”)), from mos (“manner, custom”).
[Further reading]
edit
- moral in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- moral in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- moral at OneLook Dictionary Search
[Noun]
editmoral (plural morals)
1.(of a narrative) The ethical significance or practical lesson.
The moral of The Boy Who Cried Wolf is that if you repeatedly lie, people won't believe you when you tell the truth.
2.1841, Thomas Macaulay, Comic Dramatists of the Restoration (printed in Edinburgh Review, January 1841)
We protest against the principle that the world of pure comedy is one into which no moral enters.
3.(chiefly in the plural) Moral practices or teachings: modes of conduct.
a candidate with strong morals
4.(obsolete) A morality play.
5.(slang, dated) A moral certainty.
6.(slang, dated) An exact counterpart.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (conforming to a standard of right behaviour): ethical, incorruptible, noble, righteous, virtuous
- (probable but not proved): virtualedit
- (moral practices or teachings): ethics, mores
[Verb]
editmoral (third-person singular simple present morals, present participle moraling or moralling, simple past and past participle moraled or moralled)
1.(intransitive) To moralize.
[[Catalan]]
ipa :/moˈɾal/[Adjective]
editmoral (masculine and feminine plural morals)
1.moral (relating to right and wrong)
2.moral (conforming to a standard of right behaviour)
Antonyms: immoral, amoral
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin mōrālis.
[Further reading]
edit
- “moral” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “moral” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “moral” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “moral” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
[Noun]
editmoral f (plural morals)
1.morals
2.morale
[[Danish]]
[Etymology]
editLoan from French morale via German Moral
[Noun]
editmoral c
1.morale, motivation (capacity to maintain belief in an institution or a goal)
2.moral, moral practices, conduct
streng, victoriansk moral
strict, Victorian moral
3.a moral, a lesson (of a narrative)
Synonym: morale
[[French]]
[Adjective]
editmoral (feminine singular morale, masculine plural moraux, feminine plural morales)
1.moral
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle French moral, from Old French moral, from Latin moralis.
[Further reading]
edit
- “moral” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[Noun]
editmoral m (plural moraux)
1.morale, optimism
[[Galician]]
[Adjective]
editmoral m or f (plural morais)
1.moral (relating to right and wrong)
2.moral (conforming to a standard of right behaviour)
Antonyms: inmoral, amoral
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin mōrālis.
[Further reading]
edit
- “moral” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
[Noun]
editmoral f (plural morais)
1.moral (moral practices or teachings)
2.morale
[[Ladin]]
[Adjective]
editmoral m (feminine singular morala, masculine plural morai, feminine plural morales)
1.moral
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :/moˈɾaw/[Adjective]
editmoral m or f (plural morais, comparable)
1.moral
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin moralis.
[Further reading]
edit
- “moral” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
[Noun 1]
editmoral f (plural morais)
1.a set of moral values, (collectively) principles, morality;
2.moral philosophy;
3.(informal) authority, capacity or right to impose on or influence another;
1.balls (boldness), attitude of authority;
2.right to have a say on a matter, to judge someone etc., moral high ground;
[Noun 2]
editmoral m (plural morais)
1.morale
[[Serbo-Croatian]]
ipa :/mǒraːl/[Noun]
editmòrāl m (Cyrillic spelling мо̀ра̄л)
1.(uncountable) moral
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/moˈɾal/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Latin mōrālis.
[Etymology 2]
editmora + -al
[Further reading]
edit
- “moral” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
[[Swedish]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- lamor
[Etymology]
editLoan from French morale via German Moral, used in Swedish in Then Swänska Argus (1730s).
[Noun]
editmoral c
1.morale, character
2.moral, moral practices, conduct
snäv, viktoriansk moral
strict, Victorian moral
3.a moral, a lesson (of a narrative)
[References]
edit
- moral in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
- moral in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
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wowed
[[English]]
ipa :-aʊd[Verb]
editwowed
1.simple past tense and past participle of wow
2.To apply an emoticon with the meaning of "wow"
3.2021, Facebook notification, "[Jane Doe] wowed your answer to a question... 5 minutes ago"
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muscle
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈmʌ.səl/[Anagrams]
edit
- clumse
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English muscle, muscule, muskylle, and in part from Middle French muscle, from Latin mūsculus (“a muscle”, literally “little mouse”) because of the mouselike appearance of some muscles, from mūs (“mouse”). Doublet of mussel. More at mouse.
[Noun]
editmuscle (countable and uncountable, plural muscles)
1.(uncountable) A contractile form of tissue which animals use to effect movement.
Muscle consists largely of actin and myosin filaments.
Synonym: thew
2.(countable) An organ composed of muscle tissue.
3.1912 January, Zane Grey, chapter 8, in Riders of the Purple Sage: A Novel, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, OCLC 6868219:
His brow and hair and the palms of his hands were wet, and there was a kind of nervous contraction of his muscles. They seemed to ripple and string tense.
4.1945 August 17, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 1, in Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, London: Secker & Warburg, OCLC 3655473:
You, Boxer, the very day that those great muscles of yours lose their power, Jones will sell you to the knacker […]
5.(uncountable, usually in the plural) A well-developed physique, in which the muscles are enlarged from exercise.
6.2008, Lou Schuler, "Foreward", in Nate Green, Built for Show, page xii
The fact that I was middle-aged, bald, married, and raising girls instead of chasing them didn't really bother me. Muscles are cool at any age.
7.(uncountable, figuratively) Strength, force.
8.2010, Adam Quinn, US Foreign Policy in Context, page 81
The lesson to be drawn from the events of 1914, to Roosevelt's mind, was that civilization needed muscle to defend it, not just solemn words.
9.2013, John D. MacDonald, The Long Lavender Look, page 15
It was going to take muscle to pluck Miss Agnes out of the canal.
10.(uncountable, figuratively) Hired strongmen or bodyguards.
11.1985 — Lance Parkin, The Infinity Doctors, p 34
It was easy enough to dodge him, let him crash into the floorboards. Peltroc knew that his priority was the leader, not the hired muscle.
[Related terms]
edit
- mouse
[Verb]
editmuscle (third-person singular simple present muscles, present participle muscling, simple past and past participle muscled)
1.To use force to make progress, especially physical force.
He muscled his way through the crowd.
2.1988, Steve Holman, "Christian Conquers Columbus", Ironman 47 (6): 28-34.
Hensel and Wilson hit a series of leg shots simultaneously as Christian muscles between them with Quinn right on his heels.
[[Catalan]]
ipa :/ˈmus.klə/[Etymology]
editFrom Latin musculus, doublet of múscul (“muscle”) and musclo (“mussel”).
[Further reading]
edit
- “muscle” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “muscle” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “muscle” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “muscle” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
[Noun]
editmuscle m (plural muscles)
1.shoulder
2.2000, Francesc Serés, Els ventres de la terra, Columna, page 41:
Quan ens cansem ella recolza el cap al meu muscle.
When we get tired, she rests her head on my shoulder.
Synonym: espatlla
[[French]]
ipa :/myskl/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle French muscle, a borrowing from Latin mūsculus (“a muscle”, literally “little mouse”). See also the inherited doublet moule (“mussel, clam”).
[Further reading]
edit
- “muscle” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[Noun]
editmuscle m (plural muscles)
1.muscle (contractile tissue, strength)
[Verb]
editmuscle
1.first-person singular present indicative of muscler
2.third-person singular present indicative of muscler
3.first-person singular present subjunctive of muscler
4.third-person singular present subjunctive of muscler
5.second-person singular imperative of muscler
[[Middle French]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin musculus.
[Noun]
editmuscle m (plural muscles)
1.(anatomy) muscle
[[Norman]]
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Latin mūsculus (“a muscle”, literally “little mouse”), from Ancient Greek μῦς (mûs, “mouse, muscle, mussel”).
[Noun]
editmuscle m (plural muscles)
1.(anatomy) muscle
[[Occitan]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin mūsculus.
[Further reading]
edit
- Joan de Cantalausa (2006) Diccionari general occitan a partir dels parlars lengadocians, 2 edition, →ISBN, page 667.
[Noun]
editmuscle m (plural muscles)
1.muscle
2.mussel
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paraphrase
[[English]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle French paraphrase
[Noun]
editparaphrase (countable and uncountable, plural paraphrases)
1.A restatement of a text in different words, often to clarify meaning.
2.(Scotland) One of a certain number of Scripture passages turned into verse for use in the service of praise.
[See also]
edit
- or words to that effect
[Verb]
editparaphrase (third-person singular simple present paraphrases, present participle paraphrasing, simple past and past participle paraphrased)
1.(transitive, intransitive) To restate something as, or to compose a paraphrase.
[[French]]
[Verb]
editparaphrase
1.first-person singular present indicative of paraphraser
2.third-person singular present indicative of paraphraser
3.first-person singular present subjunctive of paraphraser
4.third-person singular present subjunctive of paraphraser
5.second-person singular imperative of paraphraser
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Keanu
[[English]]
ipa :/kiːˈɑːnuː/[Anagrams]
edit
- knaue
[Etymology]
editBorrowed from Hawaiian Keanu.
[Proper noun]
editKeanu
1.A male given name from Hawaiian
[[Hawaiian]]
ipa :/keˈa.nu/[Etymology]
editFrom ke (“the”) + anu (“coolness”); coolness is a symbol of happiness and romance in the warm Hawaiian climate. Also used as a short form for compound given names beginning thus.
[Proper noun]
editKeanu
1.A male given name from Hawaiian.
2.A female given name from Hawaiian.
[References]
edit
- Hawaii State Archives: Marriage records: Keanu occurs in 19th century marriage records as the only name (mononym) of 21 women and 21 men.
- Social Security Administration: Popular Baby Names by State: Keanu was included in the top hundred first names for boys born in the State of Hawaii in 1993–1997 and 1999–2008.
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ways
[[English]]
ipa :/weɪz/[Anagrams]
edit
- Sway, Yaws, sway, yaws
[Noun]
editways
1.plural of wayeditways (plural unknown or uncertain)
1.(informal, US, usually preceded by a) A distance.
2.2007, Aryn Kyle, The God of Animals, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 41:
“We still have a ways to go with patterns.”
“You still have a ways to go with everything,” I told him.
[References]
edit
- ways in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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at a time
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
edit
- Maietta, tamaite
[Antonyms]
edit
- (simultaneously at each occurrence): individually, one at a time, piecemeal, separately, severally, singly
[Prepositional phrase]
editat a time
1.In a single, continuous period of time.
He manages to abstain from smoking for weeks at a time, but then gives in and starts again.
2.Simultaneously at each occurrence (of some action).
climb stairs two at a time
3.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., OCLC 222716698, pages 58–59:
The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on a certain afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. […] Their example was followed by others at a time when the master of Mohair was superintending in person the docking of some two-year-olds, and equally invisible.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (in a single, continuous period of time): in a row, at a stretch
- (simultaneously at each occurrence): at once, at one time, at the same time, simultaneously, together; see also Thesaurus:simultaneously
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arduous
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɑːdjuːəs/[Adjective]
editarduous (comparative more arduous, superlative most arduous)
1.Needing or using up much energy; testing powers of endurance.
The movement towards a peaceful settlement has been a long and arduous political struggle.
2.2012 May 5, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport[1]:
Chelsea survived and can now turn their attentions to the Champions League final against Bayern Munich in Germany later this month as they face an increasingly arduous task to finish in the Premier League's top four.
3.For more quotations using this term, see Citations:arduous.
4.(obsolete) burning; ardent
5.1805-1814, Dante, Henry Francis Cary (translator), The Divine Comedy
Where flames the arduous Spirit of Isidore.
6.Difficult or exhausting to traverse.
7.1974, Sue Bowder, The American biking atlas & touring guide, page 77:
Beyond the river, an arduous slope rises 3286 feet in 13 miles.
8.1999, Scott Ciencin, Mike Fredericks, Dinoverse:
Mike looked up from the arduous mountain trail. They'd been climbing for five hours and he was beginning to feel irritable.
9.2006, Jack W. Plunkett, Plunkett's Entertainment & Media Industry Almanac 2006:
Survivor reaches as many as 28 million viewers who watch contestants win a new Pontiac or guzzle Mountain Dew after scaling an arduous cliff.
10.For more quotations using this term, see Citations:arduous.
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin arduus (“lofty, high, steep, hard to reach, difficult, laborious”), akin to Irish ard (“high”).
[Further reading]
edit
- arduous in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- arduous in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- arduous at OneLook Dictionary Search
[Synonyms]
edit
- burdensome, demanding, exhausting, fatiguing, laborious, onerous, strenuous, strugglesome, wearisome
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slog
[[English]]
ipa :/slɒɡ/[Anagrams]
edit
- -logs, Glos, Glos., logs
[Etymology]
editProbably a variation of slug or slough.Possibly related to slag, seen in the North Germanic languages, in association with the third verb and second noun definition.
[Noun]
editslog (plural slogs)
1.(chiefly Britain and Canada) A long, tedious walk, or session of work.
2.2017 November 14, Phil McNulty, “England 0 – 0 Brazil”, in BBC Sport[1]:
England's experimental line-up will have realised early on that this would be a long, hard slog against the multi-talented Brazilians with great strength in their starting line-up and on the bench.
3.(cricket) An aggressive shot played with little skill.
[Synonyms]
edit
- See also Thesaurus:walk
[Verb]
editslog (third-person singular simple present slogs, present participle slogging, simple past and past participle slogged)
1.To walk slowly, encountering resistance.
2.1961 July, J. Geoffrey Todd, “Impressions of railroading in the United States: Part Two”, in Trains Illustrated, page 419:
The leading engine was one of the Class Y6 2-8-8-2 compound articulateds, [...] The stack noise of one of these great brutes slogging up a grade was quite unforgettable.
3.2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)[2]
A miraculous desert rain. We slog, dripping, into As Safi, Jordan. We drive the sodden mules through wet streets. To the town’s only landmark. To the “Museum at the Lowest Place on Earth.”
4.(by extension) To work slowly and deliberately at a tedious task.
5.To strike something with a heavy blow, especially a ball with a bat.
[[Danish]]
ipa :/sloːˀ/[Verb]
editslog
1.past tense of slå
[[Serbo-Croatian]]
[Etymology]
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
[Noun]
editslȍg m (Cyrillic spelling сло̏г)
1.syllable
2.stack, pile
[[Swedish]]
ipa :/sluːɡ/[Verb]
editslog
1. past tense of slå.
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plowed
[[English]]
ipa :/plaʊd/[Adjective]
editplowed (comparative more plowed, superlative most plowed)
1.Turned over with the blade of a plow to create furrows (usually for planting crops).
2.(figuratively, rare) Well-trodden or well-researched, previously explored.
3.(US, informal) Drunk.
4.2005, Anita Shreve, A Wedding in December, Little, Brown and Company (2005), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
We all assumed he'd walked back to campus along the beach, singing off-key as he had a habit of doing when he was plowed.
5.2005, Gary Stromberg & Jane Merrill, The Harder They Fall: Celebrities Tell Their Real Life Stories of Addiction and Recovery, Hazelden (2007), →ISBN, page 72:
Then I got a fifth of Bushmills and went back to the room and got plowed. That was my week of being "on the wagon."
6.2013, Nina Blackwood, Mark Goodman, Alan Hunter, & Martha Quinn (with Gavin Edwards), VJ: The Unplugged Adventures of MTV's First Wave, Atria Books (2013), →ISBN, page 202:
I sat on a stool while everybody in the crew rotated around me, offering me shots of tequila. The only thing I had eaten all day was a doughnut, and I got totally plowed.
7.For more quotations using this term, see Citations:plowed.
[Alternative forms]
edit
- ploughed
[Synonyms]
edit
- (drunk): see also Thesaurus:drunk.
[Verb]
editplowed
1.simple past tense and past participle of plow
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meanwhile
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈmiːnwaɪl/[Adverb]
editmeanwhile (not comparable)
1.During the time that something is happening.
2.At the same time, but elsewhere.
3.1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 19, in The China Governess[1]:
Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.
4.In contrast or opposed to aspects previously mentioned.
5.2013 March 29, Markos Papadatos, quoting Marina Diamandis, “Marina And The Diamonds on 'How to be a Heartbreaker'”, in Greek Reporter[2]:
When you are in the studio you don’t have anybody to feed off of, meanwhile when you are playing live you interact with people and you feel the energy in the room.
[Anagrams]
edit
- main wheel, mainwheel
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English menewhile, equivalent to mean + while. Adverb is by ellipsis from in the mean while, noun being conventionally written as one word after the adverb.
[Noun]
editmeanwhile (plural meanwhiles)
1.The time between two events.
[Synonyms]
edit
- between-time, meantime; see also Thesaurus:interimedit
- (during the time): in the meantime, meanwhilst, the while
- (at the same time but elsewhere): in the meantime, meantime, meanwhilst
- (however): at the same time, on the other hand
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buy in
[[English]]
[Noun]
editbuy in (countable and uncountable, plural buy ins)
1.Alternative spelling of buy-in
[Verb]
editbuy in (third-person singular simple present buys in, present participle buying in, simple past and past participle bought in)
1.To accept an idea as valid; to join in on a concept.
2.To invest as part of a group; to put one's personal stake in an investment.
3.To buy back for the owner at an auction.
4.(finance) For the buyer of securities, whose seller fails to deliver the securities contracted for, to buy the securities from a third party and demand the difference in price from the original seller.
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buy-in
[[English]]
[Alternative forms]
edit
- buy in
[Noun]
editbuy-in (countable and uncountable, plural buy-ins)
1.Support; agreement; blessing (in a secular sense).
To win, I need to get buy-in from the team to have alignment with our mission.Let's show the idea around and get buy-in from marketing.
Synonyms: alignment, approval
2.(poker) A tournament where a player must purchase all of his or her chips before the tournament starts.
3.(poker) The amount that a player buys in for
4.1983, David M. Hayano, Poker faces: the life and work of professional card players:
When tournament players are eliminated but remain eager to win back their buy-in, side games often develop and upstage tournament play with limits exceeding those in the tournament.
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bought
[[English]]
ipa :/bɔːt/[Anagrams]
edit
- hog tub, hog-tub, hogtub
[Etymology 1]
editSee buy.
[Etymology 2]
editFrom Middle English bought, bowght, bouȝt, *buȝt, probably an alteration of bight, biȝt, byȝt (“bend, bight”) after bowen, buwen, buȝen (“to bow, bend”). Cognate with Scots boucht, bucht, bout (“bend”). More at bight.
[References]
edit
- bought in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- The Oxford English Dictionary.
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methodically
[[English]]
[Adverb]
editmethodically (comparative more methodically, superlative most methodically)
1.In a methodical manner; with order.
2.1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 429:
He felt his teeth methodically, one after the other, with a vibrato movement of finger and thumb.
[Etymology]
editmethodical + -ly
[Synonyms]
edit
- scientifically, systematically; see also Thesaurus:methodically
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margin
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈmɑːdʒɪn/[Anagrams]
edit
- Ingram, Maring, arming, raming
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle English margyne, margine, from Latin marginem (possibly via Old French margin), accusative of margō (“edge, brink, border, margin”). Doublet of marge and margo.
[Further reading]
edit
- margin in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- margin in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
[Noun]
editmargin (plural margins)
1.(typography) The edge of the paper, typically left blank when printing but sometimes used for annotations etc.
2.The edge or border of any flat surface.
3.1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad[1]:
Nothing could be more business-like than the construction of the stout dams, and nothing more gently rural than the limpid lakes, with the grand old forest trees marshalled round their margins like a veteran army that had marched down to drink, only to be stricken motionless at the water’s edge.
4.1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 7:
The lobule margins, furthermore, are arched away from the lobe, with the consequence that (when fully inflated) the abaxial leaf surface forms the interior lining of the lobule.
5.(figuratively) The edge defining inclusion in or exclusion from a set or group.
6.1999, Pierre François, Inlets of the Soul: Contemporary Fiction in English and the Myth of the Fall, page 186,
As far as space is concerned, Mary Lamb finds herself at the farthest margin of society - among tramps - when the novel begins.
7.
8. A difference or ratio between results, characteristics, scores.
9.2012 April 15, Phil McNulty, “Tottenham 1-5 Chelsea”, in BBC[2]:
Chelsea will point to that victory margin as confirmation of their superiority - but Spurs will complain their hopes of turning the game around were damaged fatally by Atkinson's decision.
10.2017 March 9, James P. Pinkerton, “A Deus ex Machina for the Climate Change Problem”, in The American Conservative[3]:
in Kentucky, for example, Trump beat Hillary Clinton by a nearly two-to-one margin
margin of victory
11.A permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits.
margin of error
12.(finance) The yield or profit; the selling price minus the cost of production.
13.(finance) Collateral security deposited with a broker, to compensate the broker in the event of loss in the speculative buying and selling of stocks, commodities, etc.
(Can we find and add a quotation of N. Biddle to this entry?)
14.That which is ancillary; periphery.
This model merely nips at the margins.
[Verb]
editmargin (third-person singular simple present margins, present participle margining, simple past and past participle margined)
1.(transitive) To add a margin to.
2.(transitive) To enter (notes etc.) into the margin.
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin margo
[Noun]
editmargin m (definite singular marginen, indefinite plural marginer, definite plural marginene)
1.a margin (most senses)
[References]
edit
- “margin” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
[Synonyms]
edit
- marg
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Etymology]
editFrom Latin margo
[Noun]
editmargin m (definite singular marginen, indefinite plural marginar, definite plural marginane)
1.a margin (most senses)
[References]
edit
- “margin” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
[Synonyms]
edit
- marg
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Capitol Hill
[[English]]
[Proper noun]
editCapitol Hill
1.The hill in Washington, D.C., on which the Capitol is located, where Congress holds its sessions.
Culture new contacts on Capitol Hill.
2.A neighborhood of Washington, D.C., United States.
3.(informal) Congress
4.1975, Ralph de Toledano, Hit & Run: The Rise--And Fall?--Of Ralph Nader, page 120:
Let me put it this way: The girl in question was no novice to Washington nor to the ways of Capitol Hill.
5.2000, Jeffrey M. Berry, The New Liberalism: The Rising Power of Citizen Groups, page 102:
At the same time, the failure of conservatives to invest in Capitol Hill lobbying that could be coordinated with their grass-roots efforts represents a strategic misallocation of resources.
6.2005, Yanek Mieczkowski, Gerald Ford and the Challenges of the 1970s, page 62:
The Ninety-fourth Congress would be emphatically Democratic, and Ford's base of support on Capitol Hill would be narrower and weaker.
7.2007, Alan Greenspan, The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World, page 233:
I cannot count how many letters I received from Capitol Hill in the 1990s outlining one scheme or another to spend more or tax less
8.2007, John W. Dean, Broken Government: How Republican Rule Destroyed the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches, page 30:
A political reality of Capitol Hill is that the party in control has always taken care of its own and, as the minority sees it, gives them "the shaft."
9.A neighborhood of Denver, Colorado, United States.
10.A neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, United States.
[Synonyms]
edit
- (neighborhood in Denver): Cap Hill
- (neighborhood in Seattle): Cap Hill
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majority
[[English]]
ipa :/məˈd͡ʒɒɹɪti/[Antonyms]
edit
- (more than half): minority
[Etymology]
editFrom Middle French maiorité, from Medieval Latin māiōritātem, accusative of Latin māiōritās, from Latin māiōr (“greater”).Morphologically major + -ity
[Noun]
editmajority (countable and uncountable, plural majorities)
1.More than half (50%) of some group.
The majority agreed that the new proposal was the best.
Those opposing the building plans were in the majority, so the building project was canceled.
2.1920, Champ Clark, Democratic Achievement:
But in 1912 the American people gave the Democrats another opportunity, and under the leadership of Woodrow Wilson we swept the country from sea to sea. At the end of that historic contest we had the Presidency, the Senate by a working majority, and the House by an overwhelming majority.
3.The difference between the winning vote and the rest of the votes.
The winner with 53% had a 6% majority over the loser with 47%.
4.(dated) Legal adulthood, age of majority.
By the time I reached my majority, I had already been around the world twice.
5.(Britain) The office held by a member of the armed forces in the rank of major.
On receiving the news of his promotion, Charles Snodgrass said he was delighted to be entering his majority.
6.Ancestors; ancestry.
7.1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A. Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], OCLC 152706203:
Of evil parents an evil generation, a posterity not unlike their majority; of mischievous progenitors, a venomous and destructive progeny.
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in the field
[[English]]
[Prepositional phrase]
editin the field
1.This term needs a definition. Please help out and add a definition, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
Synonym: on the ground
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passage
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈpæsɪd͡ʒ/[Etymology 1]
editBorrowed into Middle English from Old French passage, from passer (“to pass”).
[Etymology 2]
editFrom French passager, from Italian passeggiare
[Further reading]
edit
- passage in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- passage in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- passage at OneLook Dictionary Search
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/ˌpɑˈsaː.ʒə/[Etymology]
editFrom Middle Dutch passage, from Middle French passage, from Old French passage. Equivalent to passeren + -age.
[Noun]
editpassage f (plural passages, diminutive passagetje n)
1.A passage, astage of a journey.
2.A passageway, a corridor, a narrow route.
3.A paragraph or section of text with particular meaning.
4.a passage way in a city, especially a roofed shopping street.
Synonym: winkelpassage
[[French]]
ipa :/pɑ.saʒ/[Etymology 1]
editFrom Old French, from passer + -age.
[Etymology 2]
editVerb form of passager.
[Further reading]
edit
- “passage” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[[Old French]]
[Noun]
editpassage m (oblique plural passages, nominative singular passages, nominative plural passage)
1.passage (part of a route or journey)
2.circa 1180, Chrétien de Troyes, Lancelot ou le Chevalier de la charrette:
Volez que je vos die gierres
Del passage com il est max ?
Do you want me to tell you
Of the passage, how bad it is?
[[Swedish]]
ipa :/paˈsɑːʂ/[Etymology]
editFrom Old French passage, from passer (“to pass”)
[Noun]
editpassage c
1.access, transit
Synonym: genomgång
[References]
edit
- passage in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- passage in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
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